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Moon ♉ Taurus
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 May 2031 at 19:07.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1896".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2031 after 16 days on 5 June 2031 at 11:58.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 387 of Meeus index or 1340 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 20 minutes. It is 47 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠106.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139.8°.
10 days after point of perigee on 9 May 2031 at 07:28 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 May 2031 at 02:08 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 393 350 km (244 416 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 723 km (252 105 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 7 May 2031 at 22:55 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 May 2031 at 03:26 in ♉ Taurus.
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
10 days since the previous standstill on 9 May 2031 at 07:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.092°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.091° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 May 2031 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini.
In 1 day on 21 May 2031 at 07:17 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.